GC23H:
Linking Human and Environmental Change: Evidence for the Early Anthropogenic Hypothesis II

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
Chairs:  Aubrey L Hillman, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States and David P Pompeani, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Primary Conveners:  Aubrey L Hillman, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Co-conveners:  David P Pompeani, University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Campus, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Matthew S Finkenbinder, University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Campus, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

1:40 PM
GC23H-01
 
The Early Anthropogenic Hypothesis: Top-Down and Bottom-up Evidence
William F Ruddiman, University of Virginia, Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, VA, United States
2:00 PM
GC23H-02
 
Simulating late Holocene climate changes caused by competing forcing of the Earth’s orbital and greenhouse gas changes
Feng He, Center for Climatic Research, Madison, WI, United States, Stephen J Vavrus, Univ Wisconsin, Madison, WI, United States, John E Kutzbach, Univ Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States and William F Ruddiman, University of Virginia, Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, VA, United States
2:20 PM
GC23H-03
 
Quelccaya Ice Core Evidence of Widespread Atmospheric Pollution from Colonial Metallurgy after the Spanish Conquest of South America (1532 AD)
Paolo Gabrielli1, Chiara Uglietti1, Colin A Cooke2 and Lonnie G Thompson1, (1)The Ohio State University, Byrd Polar Research Center, Columbus, OH, United States, (2)Yale University, Department of Geology and Geophysics, New Haven, CT, United States
2:40 PM
GC23H-04
 
Holocene River Dynamics, Climate Change and Floodwater Farming in the Watersheds of the Pamir and Tien Shan Mountains of Inner Asia
Irina P Panyushkina1, Mark G Macklin2 and Willem H.J. Toonen2, (1)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (2)Aberystwyth University, Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, Ceredigion, United Kingdom
3:00 PM
GC23H-05
 
Trajectories of Disturbance in Island SE Asia: A Hypothesis of Anthropogenic Forest Management and Food Production
Chris O Hunt, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, BT9, United Kingdom; Liverpool John Moores University, Geography, Liverpool, United Kingdom
3:20 PM
GC23H-06
 
What Role for Humans in Global Land Cover Change over the Holocene? Insights from Models and Data
Kristen M. Krumhardt1,2, Jed O Kaplan1, Basil Davis1 and Marco Zanon3, (1)University of Lausanne, Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics, Lausanne, Switzerland, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of Kiel, Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte, Kiel, Germany
 
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